People Quotes - Page 527

A lot of really smart, wealthy people know that [slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn't worked.]

I hate taking refugees. I guarantee you they are bad. That is why they are in prison right now. They are not going to be wonderful people who go on to work for the local milk people.

I think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles. It takes awhile to get oriented to what I do, but people seem to be able to hear it if they give it a chance. I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.

If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It's very exhilarating.

I didn't want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like you would do something more for yourself.

If you constantly beat yourself up with negative thoughts, you will either beat up on the people around you- verbally, emotionally, or physically- or you will beat up on yourself by destroying some area of your own life.

If you could do something that would make people happy, and it would cost you neither money nor time, would you do it? If that same thing made you happy, would you do it? What is this magical thing that will brighten your day and the days of people around you and yet cost you nothing? A smile.

There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.

The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds population - 2.3 billion people.

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash through the logic of individual utility and behave paradoxically. Instead of recoiling from the sorts of loving commitments that almost always involve suffering, they throw themselves more deeply into them. Even while experiencing the worst and most lacerating consequences, some people double down on vulnerability. They hurl themselves deeper and gratefully into their art, loved ones and commitments.

I surrounded myself with people who indulged my ego. They treated me as though I was Ziggy Stardust or one of my characters, never realising that David Jones might be behind it.

Even now, as we speak, people are having sex with animals. And we wonder why the animals attack us.

If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

People are happiest when they're trying to achieve goals that are difficult but not out of reach.

The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know what they're doing

The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.

People aren't interested in you. They're interested in themselves

Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people.

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

People laughed at the way I dressed, but that was the secret of my success. I didn't look like anyone.